You grow up in a family that you have to get along with. Then he is swept away by puberty and the insurmountable challenges of his first loves, followed by a series of other more or less happy relationships, a lot of so-called "ordinary problems", until he reaches a somewhat unscathed old age.
Bianca Bell's short story collection captures just these fragments of human destiny. They are snippets of individual life stories, often containing their fates in their entirety - a girl at the swimming pool experiences a breakthrough situation, a meeting arranged via Tinder is similarly crucial for another woman, a good friend dies for one man, and another goes to read at a literary festival.
However, Bianca Bell is also able to scrape a dose of hope out of the piles of nostalgia and melancholy. The hope that it's all really just fragments and the world keeps on turning...
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Bianca Bell
(born. 1970) comes from Prague, where he still lives halfway between the Balkan and British parts of his family. He makes his living as a translator and interpreter. Her first novel, Sentimental Novel, was published in 2009 and republished in a revised version by Host in 2018. This was followed by Dead Man (2011) and All Day Nothing Happens (2013). The novel Jezero (2016) has won numerous literary awards and the rights to its publication have been sold to twenty-one countries. The author's fifth novel, Mona, was published in 2019 and won the Czech Book Award a year later.
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